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Huffington Post: Crowdfunding’s Power To Close The Racial Wealth Gap

Startups and small businesses are now allowed to raise $1 million annually from small-dollar investors, which opens the doors to opportunity for businesses owned by women, veterans and minorities. And why is this important? Because access to capital is a major barrier to growing a business and people of color have little family wealth they […]

By |May 16th, 2016

Press Release for the Financial Inclusion Competition Winner, WealthyLife

Contact: John Keaten, 212-784-5701, jkeaten@groupgordon.com Simona Combi, 202-735-0519, simona@globalpolicysolutions.org Center for Global Policy Solutions’ Financial Inclusion Competition Winner WealthyLife Gets JPMorgan Chase & Co. Grant to Build Mobile Game to Increase Financial Capability “Credit Stacker” will be distributed for free in 28 cities through WealthyLife’s work with ConnectHome, a public-private initiative to expand broadband access, […]

By |May 11th, 2016

Time.com op-ed: Obama Should Propose a 9/11-Style Fund for Flint

In this op-ed, Maya Rockeymoore discusses why government officials need to develop a policy response that residents actually need: a 9/11-style fund that provides resources, in the form of direct compensation and subsidized lifetime healthcare, for affected households. The time has come for state and federal policymakers to fix what they broke by offering Flint […]

By |May 4th, 2016

Fusion: President Obama condemns ‘corrosive attitude’ that lead to Flint water crisis

The article covers President Obama’s visit to Flint and discusses the various government efforts to replace the city’s water pipes, but Maya Rockeymoore, CGPS President and CEO, makes the point that that is not sufficient. “People of color were disproportionately harmed, because they had an infrastructure that was older and more decrepit, because the water caused more […]

By |May 4th, 2016

Share Your Social Security Story with Us!

The Center for Global Policy Solutions seeks volunteers to share their experiences with receiving Social Security benefits as a child or youth. Many Americans are unaware that children and youths receive Social Security as survivors of a parent who has died, dependents of a parent who is disabled and/or dependents of an older adult who […]

By |May 3rd, 2016

KSNW: Summit to address neighborhood safety concerns and highlight progress

Our Community Engagement Initiative organized a summit in Kansas on neighborhood health and safety, which KSNW covered. Organizers are working through a grant managed by the Center for Global Policy Solutions to increase the health and safety of the community. “That grant is a wonderful asset to the community there just south of WSU and […]

By |May 2nd, 2016

The Nation: Lead Poisoning in Flint Is More Than a Health Crisis

Zoë Carpenter talked to Maya Rockeymoore about the devastating implications of the Flint water crisis: Even more devastating may be what the water crisis has done to residents’ wealth. Flint’s population, which is 57 percent black, is particularly vulnerable to downward swings in the housing market. Nationally, home equity accounts for a staggering 92 percent of black Americans’ […]

By |April 27th, 2016

The American Prospect: Warren Calls on Banks to Invest in Minority Neighborhoods, Businesses

Isaac Park discusses Senator Elizabeth Warren’s keynote speech at the 2016 Color of Wealth Summit. Senator Warren discussed the need for government to make real investments in communities of color, which were deeply affected by the housing collapse. It’s this low family wealth that prevents entrepreneurs of color from succeeding as business owners. “The housing collapse destroyed […]

By |April 26th, 2016

The Hill Op-Ed on The Color of Entrepreneurship

Senior Research Fellow Algernon Austin highlights findings from his report, “The Color of Entrepreneurship“: People of color are indeed interested in being entrepreneurs. In fact, when one looks only at businesses without employees, women of color are more likely to be entrepreneurs than white women. The problem for people of color is growing their businesses […]

By |April 25th, 2016

Media Coverage of “The Color of Entrepreneurship” Report

Report: The Color of Entrepreneurship: Why the Racial Gap Among Firms Costs the U.S. Billions Coverage: Inc.com: These Black CEOs Couldn’t Get a Loan (Now They Run Some of the Fast-Growing Companies in America) Black Enterprise: #BlackBizMatters: Spending $1.2 Trillion Black Buying Power With Black Businesses Fast Company: One Of The Biggest Challenges Of Getting Funding For Minority-Owned […]

By |April 25th, 2016